Any other Helium writers who have decided not to leapfrog?

How about using the alternative. Write to content@helium.com and ask them to do a typo edit. They allow up to three alterations and you mark your email MARKETPLACE TYPO, and explain the typo you want and also give them the title of the Marketplace article and which publisher and they will do it for you.

That's one reason I haven't written anything there in a very long while. I write for other web sites and get paid a lot better, so I know my writing is not that bad, but Helium's method of rating just doesn't work. I leapfrogged one article and it quit making money altogether, so why bother with it? I get paid from them about once a year - good enough for never going there any more.

Well, I have never been told to leapfrog, but yes, Helium does encourage that you leapfrog your articles for better ratings and to agree with you, I have firmly decided not to. Somehow, the process of going back and correcting an article other than for grammar or spelling doesn't agree with my way of writing. When I take up writing on a particular topic, it means I felt that way about the topic and penned down my thoughts or research or whatever, to go and change it to get a better rating seems very superficial. It also for me means that my thoughts on the same thing have changed, in a short matter of time, which doesn't usually happen. Another reason is, you read the articles written on the same subject and decide your article is missing a few things, you go back and re-write your article, that according to me is stealing without somebody else coming to know about it. I would want to stand by what I have written and that is why I have stopped leapfrogging.

I am a bit hit and miss about leapfrogging. As a general rule I leave an article for a few months to find out where it ranks. I had an article that started as 7/7 but as the weeks passed it slowly got to number one without any changes from me. If an article is good enough then it will eventually find its true rank over those with mistakes and errors in. If after a few months the article is not doing very well, then I read it to see how it reads and normally find that there are some improvements that I can make

It's the other way around for me :P I don't bother to leapfrog for grammar and spelling errors. I just send them a typo fix email. I leapfrog when I read my articles and realised that I could have writen it better another way.

I am new to helium and haven't figure out all the ins and outs and I really don't understand leapfrogging. Are you articles often selected in Marketplace? I was looking into one until I realized there seemed to be over a dozen submitted already. I consider myself a good writer but I don't see how Marketplace would be better or easier than sending in queries. Is it really worth the effort?